Life’s Truth in Poetry

By Ollie L. Jones

This book is a collection of poetry. It has been 50 years in the making.

• Language: English
• Publisher: iUniverse
• Release date: Mar 8, 2021
• ISBN: 9781663219534

Ollie L. Jones

OLLIE L. JONES is a former U.S. Marine. This is his first book of poetry.

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LIFE’S TRUTH

IN POETRY

OLLIE L. JONES

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LIFE’S TRUTH IN POETRY

Copyright © 2021 Ollie L. Jones.

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ISBN: 978-1-6632-1952-7 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-6632-1953-4 (e)

iUniverse rev. date: 03/08/2021

Contents

Never End

My Beating Heart

To See You Smile

Baby it’s you

Alone Together

Distant Lover

Kisses and Hugs

Once in a Lifetime

You Know me

A Love Story

I love you

One of a Kind

If I Could

When Words are Not Enough

Not One Single Tear

All I Ever Wanted

Grew up together

My Message to You

A Message from You

Watching You

Speak to My Heart

The Freedom to Love

Come together

The Presence of You

Anything for You

Whenever we’re Apart

Without you

The Meaning of Love

Honey Sweet

Missing You

Two Hearts As one

Be There for You

A Message Today

A Message from You

In Honor of My Mother

Please be Mine

If Only you knew

The Key to My Heart

A song For You

Your favorite Song

Sunset Going Down

Your Love Makes Me Rich

Your Letters

My Worst Mistake

A Prayer for You

All about You

Good Cheer

Closer than Close

Tell me you Love Me

There for You

Cried Together

Personal Set of Ears

Let the Games begin

Let’s be friends

Feeling bad

These Sheets

Big Love

Thinking of You

Part 1: REFLECTIONS OF THE MIND

The Door to Me

The Pillow

You Get What You Deserve

I Fucked Up

The Seed

When the Master Calls Me Home

Listen to the Wind

Approaching Footsteps

Isolation and Solitude

In the Middle of The Night

The Desert of My Mind

When the Time Comes

Sometimes I Cry

Stress and Strain

Gone but not Forgotten

The Things I Leave Behind

The Last Time I Saw Reality

Lost in Time

Stars Shine Down

The Drama

The Story of my Life

The Beginning of the End

Handwriting on the Wall

The Road

Not Body, but Mind

If I Could Go Back

Lucky

A Lonely Troubled Heart

My Wicked, Wicked Ways

Why Me?

Betrayed

Into the Dark

Time Traveler

Damn! What a Ride

Crowed mind

The Man in the Mirror

No Rewind

That Booty

When Lightning Strikes

This great Mind Field

Thank You

Goodnight My Love

The Heavens Up above

Changing Times

The Bells

I Expect Too Much

Time Passes By

All by Myself

The Cool Summer Breeze

Is It a Crime?

A Broken Heart

Tear Drops in the Sand

Rest in Peace

The Long Road Back

For the Good Times

Reasons to Change

Life’s Battlefield

Asshole in Heaven

A Shoulder to Cry On

The Revelation

So Alone

I tried

Opportunity Knocking

The Truth will Flow

Lessons Learned

Man, What a Ride

The Window to My Soul

The Eyes Tell All

If

The Rose

Why I Write This Shit

A Reminder

Bad Mamma Jama

Places in My Mind

Me and the Old School

Masquerade

Better than Me

Precious Time

Help me Father

Friends Do for Friends

My Wonder Woman

Do it Now

Really?

Rest in Peace

Hustle Harder

Coming home

Better than Me

Precious Time

Help me Father

Friends do for Friends

My Wonder Woman

Ups and Downs

If the Creek don’t Rise And the Good LORD’s Willing

Garbage in, Garbage out.

Till They Drop the box.

Semper Fi

Real Friends

See you when I get there

My Wonder Woman

Help me Father

Friends do for friends

Do it now

Really?

Rest in Peace

Hustle Harder

I Hustle

Coming Home

Ups and Downs

If the creek don’t rise And the good Lord’s willing

Garbage in, Garbage Out

Until they drop the box

Semper fi

Real Friends

I believe in Us

Because of You

Save a place for me

For the fallen

Just in Case

That song that hurts

Never End

There are things,

I hope never end.

The message